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Terry Pratchett: My daughter Rhianna will take over the Discworld when I'm gone
Who is running for leader? Theresa May is the bookmakers’ favourite. As is Michael Gove, the controversial former education secretary detested by teachers up and down the country. Then there’s Stephen Crabb, Liam Fox and the less well-known Andrea Leadsom to consider. Did they want to remain or leave? Stephen Crabb and Theresa May both voted to remain in the EU, whist Liam Fox, Michael Gove and Andrea Leadsom supported the Leave campaign. Who has ruled out? Boris Johnson, former mayor of London, face of the Leave campaign and once the bookies’ favourite to be the next Prime Minister, announced he would not be standing for Conservative leader. What will happen in the meantime? In his resignation speech, Cameron announced he would continue in post as Prime Minister for the next three months, until the new party leader is elected. How does the election work? Firstly, Conservative MPs present a choice of two candidates to the whole party. Has it always been like that? No. When and why did it change?
Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets Excerpt: Read free excerpt of Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets by J.K. (Joanne) Rowling (page 2)
The rest of Harry's sentence was drowned out by a high-pitched mewling from somewhere near his ankles. He looked down and found himself gazing into a pair of lamp-like yellow eyes. It was Mrs. Norris, the skeletal gray cat who was used by the caretaker, Argus Filch, as a sort of deputy in his endless battle against students. "You'd better get out of here, Harry," said Nick quickly. "Right," said Harry, backing away from the accusing stare of Mrs. "Filth!" So Harry waved a gloomy good-bye to Nearly Headless Nick and followed Filch back downstairs, doubling the number of muddy footprints on the floor. Harry had never been inside Filch's office before; it was a place most students avoided. Filch grabbed a quill from a pot on his desk and began shuffling around looking for parchment. "Dung," he muttered furiously, "great sizzling dragon bogies . . . frog brains . . . rat intestines . . . "Name . . . "It was only a bit of mud!" But as Filch lowered his quill, there was a great BANG! "PEEVES!"
Monomyth
Joseph Campbell's monomyth, or the hero's journey, is a basic pattern that its proponents argue is found in many narratives from around the world. This widely distributed pattern was described by Campbell in The Hero with a Thousand Faces (1949).[1] Campbell, an enthusiast of novelist James Joyce, borrowed the term monomyth from Joyce's Finnegans Wake.[2] Campbell held that numerous myths from disparate times and regions share fundamental structures and stages, which he summarized in The Hero with a Thousand Faces: A hero ventures forth from the world of common day into a region of supernatural wonder: fabulous forces are there encountered and a decisive victory is won: the hero comes back from this mysterious adventure with the power to bestow boons on his fellow man.[3] A chart outlining the Hero's Journey. Summary[edit] In a monomyth, the hero begins in the ordinary world, and receives a call to enter an unknown world of strange powers and events. The 17 Stages of the Monomyth[edit]
Narrativity
Narrative content and discourse are the linguistic antecedents of narrativity. Narrative content reflects the linear sequence of events as characters live through them—that is, the backbone and structure describing who did what, where, when, and why. Narrative discourse represents how the story is told—that is, storytellers' use of literary devices to expand on the narrative content, such as emotional change over the course of the story line and sequencing of events to create drama. Narrative transportation is the engrossing, transformational experience of being swept away by a story.[2] Narrative persuasion is the effect of narrative transportation, which manifests itself in story receivers' positive attitudes toward the story, story-consistent attitudes toward the experience described therein, and story-consistent intentions. The theory of narrativity[edit] See also[edit] References[edit]
Fuck Peter Pan
Q : Who are you and what is this blog ? I’m Boulet, a french cartoonist living in Paris. I’ve had about 20 books published, most of them for young readers. I also worked on two books of the “Dungeon” series with Lewis Trondheim and Joann Sfar (available in English, ask at your local comic shop). This blog is an attempt to translate my french blog ” bouletcorp.com “. I started in 2004 and have drawn more than 1600 entries.
Diccionario de conceptos críticos para el estudio del cine
Diccionario de conceptos críticos para el estudio del cine (principalmente en español) compilado por Sophia A. McClennen Conceptos generales: acontecimiento profílmico – disposición u ordenación de lo que se está filmando, o de lo que está ante el objetivo de la cámara (especially refers to documentaries where the object of the camera can either be manipulated extensively or can be filmed "transparently"). Alienación: Mecanismos descondicionantes mediante los cuales el mundo social vivido se “hace extraño”. Alusión: Es la forma de una evocación verbal o visual de otra película, con la intención de ser un medio expresivo para hacer observaciones sobre el mundo ficcional de la película. anticine – cine que funciona contra el cine clásico, criticándolo y subvirtiendo sus estructuras, por lo general tanto en el nivel de la significación como en los métodos de producción, distribución, y exhibición argumento – the chronological story represented in the film neocolonialismo - neo-colonialism
Two men, one woman, separated from the world.
Extracts from the diary of Anne Frank (1942-44)
The following extracts are taken from the diary of Anne Frank between 1942 and 1944, when she lived in hiding in Amsterdam with her family. The Franks were discovered, arrested and transported to Auschwitz on August 4th 1944. July 8th 1942: “At three o’clock (Hello had left but was supposed to come back later), the doorbell rang. I didn’t hear it, since I was out on the balcony, lazily reading in the sun. A little while later Margot appeared in the kitchen doorway looking very agitated. “Father has received a call-up notice from the SS,” she whispered.
Básnické figúry a trópy ~ Literatúra - Referáty
Figúry - štylistický prostriedok, ktorý plní estetickú funkciu - výsledok úsilia o ozvláštnenie reči - väčšina figúr sa zakladá na opakovaní hlások, slabík, slovných spojení, na zmene slovosledu, inotácie alebo ide o vypustenie výrazu z vety zvukosled - ak sa v literárnom texte opakujú tie isté hlásky alebo fonicky podobné hlásky (pohladkal dlaňou blýskavý lemeš, pohol kolieskom...) onomatopoja - napodobňovanie prírodných alebo pracovných zvukov (šu - šu - šu, cvendžíme/zuníme/zvoníme/skosíme... paronomázia - hromadenie takých pomenovaní vo verši, ktoré majú rovnaký slovný základ (slavme slavně slávu Slávúv slavných) aliterácia - opakovanie hlások alebo skupiny hlások na začiatku za sebou nasledujúcich slov (z popola popolníka) kalambúr - zvukovo podobné alebo rovnaké, ale významovo rozdielne i protikladné pomenovania (čo asimiluje - asi miluje) anafora - opakovanie rovnakého slova na začiatku veršov, viet (Letel poľom, letel dolom, letel horou ako strela)
